Four years on from 4 November 2016, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, former HDP deputy Ms. Çağlar Demirel, the former Mayor of Diyarbakir (Amed) Gültan Kışanak and former HDP İstanbul deputy Sebahat Tuncel spoke out from prison about the detention and arrest operations that had been undertaken against them and other HDP elected officials in Turkey.